I have spoken my truth, and most people didn’t run away from me. They weren’t afraid of my sexuality, or my appearance, or my emotions, or my shortcomings. They weren’t afraid of my desire to walk a different path from the one that society too often tries to choose for us all—the safe path. If I wanted to play it safe, I would never get out of bed in the morning. I stand out in the world, and I love that about myself. I didn’t always feel this way, but I’ve come to discover that the more I embrace who I am, the more I connect with other people. And the more I connect with other people, the more I learn about myself.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BRITTNEY GRINER was a three-time All-American at Baylor University, where she scored 3,283 career points (No. 2 in Division 1 women’s history) and blocked 748 shots (No. 1 all-time), while earning national Player of the Year honors in both her junior and senior seasons. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
SUE HOVEY is a former vice president and executive editor at ESPN. She spent fourteen years with ESPN The Magazine and is now an independent writer and editor. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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CREDITS
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Cover photograph © by Danielle Levitt/AUGUST
COPYRIGHT
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IN MY SKIN. Copyright © 2014 by Brittney Griner. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or here in after invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Griner, Brittney.
In my skin : my life on and off the basketball court / Brittney Griner.
pages cm
EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062309341
ISBN 978-0-06-230933-4 (hardback) 1. Griner, Brittney. 2. Basketball players—United States—Biography. 3. Women basketball players—United States—
Biography. I. Title.
GV884.G78G75 2014
796.323092—dc23
[B]
2013050667
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